I do not believe that pleasure leads to happiness; I do not believe that a woman has a soul, and I deny the whole argument from beginning to end.

There," he added with a smile that belied the brusqueness of his words, "that is my position.

Talk me out of it if you can; the night is long, and my patience as that of the ass." "I do not think this is a case for rigid application of logic.

When the feelings are concerned--and where can they be more concerned than in our intercourse with women ?--the only way to arrive at any conclusion is by a sort of trying-on process, imagining ourselves in the position indicated, and striving to fancy how it would suit us.

Let us begin in that way.